There's no way to check types at compile time?

(defn len2 [#^String x]
  (. x (length)))

(defn wrong [] (len2 10))

Would be good if you could find such errors at compile time.
Optional static typing =)

Regards.
Islon

On 12 nov, 21:43, Rich Hickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Nov 12, 7:21 pm, samppi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Ah, yes. I meant, what are these hints? What does the compiler change?
> > Is it some sort of informal type enforcement or something?
>
> The hints are described here:
>
> http://clojure.org/java_interop#typehints
>
> It is strictly a performance optimization so calls to Java can avoid
> reflection. There is no compile-time enforcement.
>
> Rich
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